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The GOP's Health-Care Alternative

We can cover more people by making the current insurance tax subsidy more fair.

By

Grace-Marie Turner and

Joseph R. Antos

Updated May 20, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET

Republican congressional leaders are finally offering a clear alternative to the health-reform plans being developed by the White House and Democrats in Congress. The goals and the rhetoric of both sides are remarkably similar: cover the uninsured, allow people to keep the coverage they have, provide more choices of affordable health insurance, and rein in health costs. But their policy prescriptions are remarkably different.